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1. Where was Coleridge born?

Your Answer: Hampshire

The correct answer was Devon

In the village of Ottery St Mary.

2. What did his father do for a living?

Your Answer: Blacksmith

The correct answer was Vicar

Sam was a young boy when he died, and he never really recovered.

3. Coleridge was famous for his huge, compelling eyes. What colour were they?

Your Answer: Brown

The correct answer was Grey

Everyone who ever met him remarked on them!

4. Which of his creations also compelled his listeners with his eyes?

Your Answer: [No Answer]

The correct answer was The Ancient Mariner

Other accepted answers: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner  

'By thy long, grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stoppst thou me'?

5. Coleridge married a girl called Sarah Fricker. Who was married to her sister?

Your Answer: Percy Shelley

The correct answer was Robert Southey

Southey was happy throughout his married {life;} Coleridge, unfortunately was not.

6. Coleridge was for much of his life obsessed with another Sara. Who was married to HER
sister?

Your Answer: Robert Southey

The correct answer was William Wordsworth

His love for Sara Hutchinson was a large factor in his growing dependency on opium.

7. What was the code name he used when writing about Sara in his notebooks and poems?

Your Answer: [No Answer]

The correct answer was Asra

I guess I don't need to point out that this is an anagram of Sara {;-).}
8. While writing his famous poem 'Kubla Khan' Coleridge was interrupted by a visitor from ...

Your Answer: Porlock

Coleridge was in an opium induced haze and is convinced that he wrote around 300
lines whilst in this reverie. He began to write them down but was interrupted and could
only remember the fragment that remains today.

9. Which poem's first draft was a letter to Sara?

Your Answer: Christabel

The correct answer was Dejection: an Ode

He changed the addressee of this poem three times !!

10. Where is Coleridge buried?

Your Answer: Devon

The correct answer was London

He spent time in all the other places listed but saw out the last 18 years of his life in
Highgate and was buried in St Michael's church, under the following epitaph which he
wrote himself: Stop Christian passer-by! Stop child of God! And read with gentle
{breast;} beneath this sod, a poet lies, or that which once seemed he, O lift one thought
in prayer for S.T.C. ! That he who, many a year, with toil of breath, Found death in life,
may here find life in death. Mercy for praise, to be forgiv'n for fame, He asked, and
hoped, through Christ. Do thou the same! If you'd like to know more about this
endearing and extraordinary man read Richard Holmes' brilliant two volume biography.
'Early Visions' deals with the first half of his life (until 1805) and 'Darker Reflections'
documents the rest. An astonishing and utterly compulsive read.
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